My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.
If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.
Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either.
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.
I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.
The arts don't exist in isolation.
There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
